{"id":19169,"date":"2013-04-10T22:09:20","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=19169"},"modified":"2013-04-10T22:09:20","modified_gmt":"2013-04-11T02:09:20","slug":"how-to-make-your-church-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-make-your-church-green\/","title":{"rendered":"How to make your church green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One way is to get taxpayers who never attend your church to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.anglican.ca\/news\/stories\/2587\" target=\"_blank\">pay for it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ever wondered how to start making your creaky, leaky, drafty church building more environmentally friendly?<\/p>\n<p>Until May 31, Canadian Anglican congregations can apply for grants of up to $1,000 to subsidize a green building audit\u2014a process that will help churches identify which areas of their buildings need to become more energy efficient.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/earth-matters\/energy\/stories\/power-from-cow-poo-heats-homes\" target=\"_blank\">better way<\/a> is to turn cow dung into electricity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At<strong> <\/strong>the Huckabay Ridge biogas facility in Stephenville, Texas, a life preserver and a \u201cNo Swimming\u201d sign hanging on the concrete exterior of one chocolate-colored pool are somebody\u2019s idea of a barnyard joke. Early this year, the manure from 10,000 cows from Texas\u2019 Erath County began stoking this facility, which is expected to produce enough pipeline-quality methane to power 11,000 homes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Most Anglican Church of Canada parishes are such prodigious generators of BS, that they could be self-sustaining for centuries &#8211; long after the single remaining congregant has blown out his Earth Day candle, packed up his fair trade coffee and closed the draft proof door for the last time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One way is to get taxpayers who never attend your church to pay for it: Ever wondered how to start making your creaky, leaky, drafty church building more environmentally friendly? Until May 31, Canadian Anglican congregations can apply for grants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/how-to-make-your-church-green\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[126],"tags":[2032],"class_list":["post-19169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-eco-cobblers","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}